Elsevier Award for Professor Ingo Ott

In August, Professor Ingo Ott was honoured with the Elsevier Award for Outstanding Achievements in Bioorganometallic Chemistry. The award has been presented for more than 20 years as part of the International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry (ISBOMC), which will take place in Paris in 2025.

Bioorganometallic chemistry deals with the biological research of organometallic compounds, i.e. molecules that typically contain a metal-carbon bond. These include both substances that occur naturally in living organisms and novel active ingredients that are synthetically produced specifically for biological or medical purposes.

The research work of Professor Ingo Ott and his working group at the Institute of Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at TU Braunschweig focuses in particular on organometallic compounds with gold, ruthenium, silver and other metals, which are being developed as innovative active ingredients for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases.